AI Safety Donors Paid Religious NGOs $3.3M for Statements on AI The Future of Life Institute and other AI Safety donors directed $3.3 million since 2025 into churches, seminaries, faith networks and religious-affinity groups to fund public statements on AI, including the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America's $105,000 "red lines on AI," the Gospel Coalition's $200,000 podcast "Silicon Spiritualities," the World Council of Churches' $100,000 "red lines," and Faith Matters' $299,000 "Magna Carta of AI." FLI runs a full-time religions program led by "Religions lead" Will Jones and "U.S. Faith Liaison" Brian J. A. Boyd, and lists the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Vatican's Fratelli Tutti Foundation among its partners. Of FLI's recipients, only two disclosed their donations on their project pages, two more disclosed only on LinkedIn, and four made no public project-related disclosures. AI Safety Donors Paid Religious NGOs $3.3M for Statements on AI Why the new-atheism spinoff is telling believers AI will bring the end times In 2024, Trump defeated Harris to succeed Biden as president. AI Safety’s largest donors — Dustin Moskovitz and the now-convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried — were among Biden’s largest donors. Suddenly, they were on the outside looking in. Trump rejected the movement’s AI doomsday prophecies and repealed Biden’s Executive Order on AI. With enough funding, they found a surprising solution — religious NGOs. Since 2025, AI Safety donors put $3.3 million into churches, seminaries, faith networks and religious-affinity groups. It paid for pronouncements: declarations, red lines, and a “Magna Carta of AI.” The AI Safety movement descends from rationalist and new atheist roots. Its core belief — that AI will literally end all human life — often draws comparisons to doomsday cults like Heaven’s Gate. Yet with enough funding, some churches are willing to square that belief with the Book of Revelation. Grant descriptions leave no doubt about what FLI paid for: public statements about AI. The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America took $105,000 from FLI. They credit their “red lines on AI” to “a grant from the Future of Life Institute.”